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Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Appointment of Mueller Isn't Going to Satisfy Democrats

If any Republican or anyone in the Trump Administration thinks that the appointment of Robert Mueller is going to squelch the ongoing calls by Democrats for a Special Prosecutor to investigate a Trump/Russia collusion, forget-about-it. For political reasons, the Democrats want this investigation to go on forever, and don't think that if Mueller finds there was "no collusion" the Democrats will accept it.

Nancy Pelosi has already said as much:

"A special prosecutor is the first step, but it cannot be the last. Director Mueller will still be in the chain of command under the
Trump-appointed leadership of the Justice Department. He cannot take the
place of a truly independent, outside commission that is completely
free from the Trump administration’s meddling."

"No actual evidence yet, but connecting the dots will lead to Trump impeachment."

There are no dots to connect; but, by making the statement, any listener is lead to believe it is simply a forgone conclusion. In the case of an impeachment, "high crimes and misdemeanors" must be proven in a straight line, in a fully connected fashion. Not merely based on an assumption from a bunch of fictional dots.

Lastly, Nancy Pelosi continues to call Mueller a Special Prosecutor and not his actual title of Special Counsel. The reason of course, is obvious. "Prosecutor" implies guilt, and the only thing left to do is to prosecute. If you doubt this, just look at the poster being displayed at a news conference showing "President" Trump happily shaking the hand of the Foreign Minister:

If that isn't political theater then nothing is. Of course there are plenty of similar pictures of Hillary Clinton doing the same thing. I especially like this one of eager President Obama being quicker on the handshake draw in his meeting with Putin: